While completing the SpiceQuest you will get to learn more about AppNeta, Nic and Sean and once complete and the quest is closed you will gain a shiny new badge!

So make sure you complete the quiz today!

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Have a question about supporting new mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Androids? Wondering what best practice management and security options are available? Or looking into deploying apps or docs to these mobile devices?

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They are geared up with all the knowledge you need to find out if virtualization is right for you or how you can expand your current vritualized solutions.

Make sure you ask them a question this week!

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Get help with understanding and using virtualization.

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5.3.7xxx's biggest new feature is Multiple Notification Types for Users, this means you can not set what notifications you want to go to what users making the email levels a lot more granular.

They have also fixed 6 major bugs as well as a few tiny ones in the backend.

Make sure you update today to get the new features!

Download it from: http://download.spiceworks.com/Spiceworks.exe

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SpiceRex has helped many IT pro's around the world get though the good and bad. This new promotion means he gets his own oil painting made up and hung in pride of place by his own meeting room at Spiceworks HQ.

Jay and Scott will be jealous, don't remember hearing about them getting an oil painting

SpiceRex recently received a promotion to Chief Rawr Officer. Given his increasing responsibilities is the areas of going "rawr!" it was a natural progression. All other dinosaurs and all roaring is now under his purview. He is also responsible for the newly formed asteroid detection program, which is understandable given what happened last time dinosaurs ruled the earth.

To commemorate the occasion, Jen had an oil portrait done. SpiceRex dressed up in his Sunday best, complete with pepper lapel pin

Read more: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/189192-spicerex-is-promoted-to-cro-chief-rawr-officer

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The key changes are:
20% Jump in Performance – By updating ruby and making some code changes there is around a 20% performance increase for everyone!
New Purchasing Nav – The purchasing section has its own tab along the nav making it easier to track and manage everything you buy
Volume License Tracking – While this was in 5.2 there have been some major improvements to how it works and what software you can track
Cloud Services Tracking – More alerting, nicer interface, better domain management and the ability to add notes and attachments
Manage Microsoft Office 365 – Like Google Apps you can now manage office 365 from within Spiceworks
Help Desk Admin Tools – Some changes to the helpdesk new ticket form, more ticket anywhere commands and better merging
Windows Intune Plugin – you can receive Intune alert notifications right in the Spiceworks Helpdesk
Updated UPS Alerting – now see what's up and what's down in the Eaton UPS Supervisor dashboard widget

As well as a huge number of bug fixes! Make sure you grab it now from http://oots.be/spiceworks its worth it!
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SpiceWorld has been running in Austin, Texas for 4 years and keeps getting bigger, with the opening of Spiceworks Europe http://oots.be/2z3 not long ago they have decided to come to the UK to hold what's set to be a great event for all IT Pros.

At the event you will get to learn all the latest IT best practices, tools and trends. Share your thoughts on all sorts of IT topics with other IT pros like you and get advice on how / what you can do better. You also get to meet Spiceworks employees, IT vendors from companies like HP and Microsoft. Then as like in the US there is a killer party in the evening!

Checkout more information below, and make sure you sign up today, this offer is going quick!

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Learn, Share, and Meet with IT Pros at the Spiceworks IT Conference 2012 in London, UK

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# Purchasing Update – All of the purchasing bits and bobs have been moved into their own tab called well purchasing, this is designed to make it easier for you to find all the fancy new functionality to make your job easier. You can request, view and update quotes very quickly.

# Enhanced Software License Tracking – If you have available seats for a software title you can now see this quickly and easily. You can also edit and delete a license and enjoy an improved licensing model for keys applied to software suites.

The team really are doing their best to make Spiceworks the product for all SMB IT pro’s.

Checkout all the beta info over on the community http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/480

Below are a couple of screenshots.

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In album Spiceworks 5.3 (4 photos)

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During the event you will get to:

• Learn IT – There will be lots of different sessions on lots of IT topics, some run by vendors and some run by the SpiceHeads
• Share IT – You will get to share all the cool stuff from best practices to tools and even the up coming trends
• Meet IT – Meet people in the same situation as your in allowing you to work though problems with them 1:1 and of course you will get to meet the Spiceworks staff and vendors.

The full agenda will be out in February but we know you will get to learn about:

• Managing your networking devices with Spiceworks
• Using Spiceworks for change control
• User management simplified with Spiceworks
• Using Spiceworks to get the best IT deals
• Managing remote sites with Spiceworks
• A glimpse at what’s coming next in Spiceworks
• …and more – coming February!

So grab your ticket at www.SpiceWorldLondon.com at a Super Duper Early Bird rate of £199.00 for two days!

I made it over to Austin for Spiceworld 2011 and had an amazing time so make sure you go to the London event for a great time and a few cool surprises   checkout more at www.spiceworldlondon.com

For those of you who don’t know the Spiceworks unplugged events are pretty much panels for IT Marketers to ask SMB IT Pros’ questions about how what and why they buy to try and get more vendors to engage with the community. Combine this with the opening off a 6 staff London office (more about this later), the SpiceCorps and also various press meetings with high profile papers and IT article writers its been a packed time for them.

The SpiceCorps London Event

We were lucky enough to have around 10 Spiceworks employees turn up to our SpiceCorps UK event on Tuesday giving all the SpiceHeads that turned up the chance to talk to the team directly to give feedback on the UK / Europe Spiceworks developments.

During the event we spoke about the upcoming release of Spiceworks 5.3 (set to be out of public within around a week and a half but you didn’t hear that here ) Hubba Bubba (Ben) also spoke about the SpiceUni program where you can pay for training in various locations though-out the UK to help you get more out of Spiceworks. Finally I (akp982 – Andy) was presented with a star for managing to get to pure capsaicin twice!

Checkout all the photos on Unofficial Spiceworks’ Google+ page here and keep an eye on the community for more events early next year.

The launch off Spiceworks Europe Limited

To help Spiceworks grow in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) the team have worked hard to launch a new office in London with a starting staff of 6 people it promises to help get more vendors in the UK geared up and involved in the community. Unofficial Spiceworks is planning to do a tour of the new office, take lots of pictures and report back as soon as we can.

“Spiceworks has become the best place in Europe for technology brands to connect with IT pros at small and medium enterprises,” said Scott Abel, Co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. “Our online traffic in the UK alone is expanding by 70 percent year-over-year. The Spiceworks Europe team will help us take advantage of this tremendous opportunity and better serve our marketing partners and users in the region.”

This new office really will do great things for getting more vendors into the community and hopefully even some more giveaways

For those of you interested you can checkout the full press release here.